Have you ever thought there might be technical reasons for the opposition of Ogg? Just one that I can think of is that there was hardly any hardware support for it and hardware support that required less power might have been important to the largest media player seller.
It was also opposed by Nokia and almost everyone else in the industry.
Do you realize how far you're stretching this? Are you so paranoid that you think that accompany would want to lock their customers into a format that they don't control and that every single one of their competitors also use?
How does it benefit the "rancher" to have the "cattle" under someone's control for which you have no vested interest? You can check the patent pool for both AAC and MP3. Apple is not part of either pool.
How does using an audio standard that Apple had no say so over keep anyone "under his thumb"?
And that's not what happened with eBooks. Amazon was using their monopsony (not a typo) power to take pricing power out of the hands of the book sellers. Apple simply gave the book publishers a way to sell their books at whatever price they chose. Do you really think Amazon was subsidizing ebook prices and selling them at a loss out of the goodness of their hearts?
I misspoke of course you're right. The $5 was referring to the cord. That still makes the complaint about Apple's *overpriced* cord irrelevant. The charger is not proprietary it's a standard USB charger and you can get a lightning cord for the same price as an Android cord.
The *plug* is not proprietary so it's irrelevant as far as cost. You can just as easily buy the same cheap dangerous plug for an Android device as an iPhone. And you can use the same plug for either one. The cord is proprietary and you can buy a lightning cord with the same price/quality tradeoff as a standard USB cord.
It's not the cord that makes the difference it is the actual plug. There is nothing proprietary about the plug. Are you saying that only Apple can make a safe DC plug that you plug a USB cord into?
Slashdotters have been saying that Apple products are just a "fashion accesory" since the iPod. What normal person would wear a watch that wasn't a fashion accessory?
If you bought any music since 2009, it's DRM free. You can install Google Photos and sync all of your photos and videos to Google without the 5gb restriction you have for iCloud unless you pay for more and very few people actually buy video from Apple instead of just renting it.
And how many people actually pay for apps except for consumables in games and subscription services that they could cancel and re subscribe through the vendors site?
I recently did some work on my open source bootloader and open source utility library during work hours. I then used them in a work project. Saved the company a lot of time, paying me to re-implement those things by just making a few improvements and fixes to my existing code.
I do that fairly often. No point re-inventing the wheel and we already use some other GPL/BSD code anyway.
It's part of the value I bring.
I see that as being different. A side project that is clearly open source and that benefits the employee is different from a side project that you are starting to make money.
If I know that we are thinking about using a certain web technology and I see coworker/report building a website to schedule tours of Mars, it's obvious that he just trying to learn something new that would benefit us later. I'd much rather he make mistakes on a side project than production code we are relying on.
And moving from Atlanta to take a job making only $170K isn't worth it. The cost of living in Atlanta and the salary you can get isn't worth the trade off for moving to San Francisco,
In fact Microsoft will sell you a decrapified version if you buy a computer directly from them through the Microsoft Syore - either a brick and mortar store or online.
I agree. I have Gigabit Internet but it's really overkill. The problem with DSL and cable are upload speeds. Comcast's gig service tops out 35Mbps - unlike AT&T.
My work network tops out at 80/80 when I'm on the VPN in the middle of the night, most streaming is less than 10Mbps, and I have yet to go to a website or download a file at anything over 25Mbps except for work.
The only thing that comes within 50% of maxing out my connection is BackBlaze if I max it out with 10connecgiknd.
First of all AT&T's prices are deceptive. $70 is likely their advertised price. It is almost certainly not the all in price. Make sure your comparing apples to apples
I have AT&T Gigabit Internet. My bill every month is $70. No extra fees for the modem rental, or other bogus fees.
I usually get around 400Mbps/400Mbps wireless and 900+Mbps/900Mbps wired on my best computer (my desktop). I get slightly less on my laptops with Gig-E.
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And it's even crazier to think that Apple would be opposed to BSD licensed software considering that OS X is based on BSD.
So "people close to the source" huh?
Have you ever thought there might be technical reasons for the opposition of Ogg? Just one that I can think of is that there was hardly any hardware support for it and hardware support that required less power might have been important to the largest media player seller.
It was also opposed by Nokia and almost everyone else in the industry.
Do you realize how far you're stretching this? Are you so paranoid that you think that accompany would want to lock their customers into a format that they don't control and that every single one of their competitors also use?
How does it benefit the "rancher" to have the "cattle" under someone's control for which you have no vested interest? You can check the patent pool for both AAC and MP3. Apple is not part of either pool.
How does using an audio standard that Apple had no say so over keep anyone "under his thumb"?
And that's not what happened with eBooks. Amazon was using their monopsony (not a typo) power to take pricing power out of the hands of the book sellers. Apple simply gave the book publishers a way to sell their books at whatever price they chose. Do you really think Amazon was subsidizing ebook prices and selling them at a loss out of the goodness of their hearts?
That's a political reason - Apple and Microsoft secretly declared war on it BECAUSE it was open and free.
Apple is not in the patent pool for either AAC or MP3. Why would they care?
I misspoke of course you're right. The $5 was referring to the cord. That still makes the complaint about Apple's *overpriced* cord irrelevant. The charger is not proprietary it's a standard USB charger and you can get a lightning cord for the same price as an Android cord.
The *plug* is not proprietary so it's irrelevant as far as cost. You can just as easily buy the same cheap dangerous plug for an Android device as an iPhone. And you can use the same plug for either one. The cord is proprietary and you can buy a lightning cord with the same price/quality tradeoff as a standard USB cord.
It's not the cord that makes the difference it is the actual plug. There is nothing proprietary about the plug. Are you saying that only Apple can make a safe DC plug that you plug a USB cord into?
You do realize that you can get third party chargers for $5 don't you?
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restricting access to data or interaction with consumers,
Apps being sandboxed and not being allowed to access features on my phone without explicit permission is a feature not a bug.
The "iOS alternative" is to go into settings and choose the apps that have access to your location and the microphone.
Slashdotters have been saying that Apple products are just a "fashion accesory" since the iPod. What normal person would wear a watch that wasn't a fashion accessory?
Please explain how Apple's laptop OS is "locked down"?
Yes because Slashdot users are the market makers....
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If you bought any music since 2009, it's DRM free. You can install Google Photos and sync all of your photos and videos to Google without the 5gb restriction you have for iCloud unless you pay for more and very few people actually buy video from Apple instead of just renting it.
And how many people actually pay for apps except for consumables in games and subscription services that they could cancel and re subscribe through the vendors site?
I see that as being different. A side project that is clearly open source and that benefits the employee is different from a side project that you are starting to make money.
If I know that we are thinking about using a certain web technology and I see coworker/report building a website to schedule tours of Mars, it's obvious that he just trying to learn something new that would benefit us later. I'd much rather he make mistakes on a side project than production code we are relying on.
Not if you're walking away from a company with a well known bad reputation like Uber.
And moving from Atlanta to take a job making only $170K isn't worth it. The cost of living in Atlanta and the salary you can get isn't worth the trade off for moving to San Francisco,
Yes and Words Mean Things
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"a single value (such as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values"
The average household income is $55775 a year. $40 a month is $480 a year. That less than 1% of the average household income.
The average cost of food per month for a household is $550.
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In fact Microsoft will sell you a decrapified version if you buy a computer directly from them through the Microsoft Syore - either a brick and mortar store or online.
I agree. I have Gigabit Internet but it's really overkill. The problem with DSL and cable are upload speeds. Comcast's gig service tops out 35Mbps - unlike AT&T.
My work network tops out at 80/80 when I'm on the VPN in the middle of the night, most streaming is less than 10Mbps, and I have yet to go to a website or download a file at anything over 25Mbps except for work.
The only thing that comes within 50% of maxing out my connection is BackBlaze if I max it out with 10connecgiknd.
I have AT&T Gigabit Internet. My bill every month is $70. No extra fees for the modem rental, or other bogus fees.
I usually get around 400Mbps/400Mbps wireless and 900+Mbps/900Mbps wired on my best computer (my desktop). I get slightly less on my laptops with Gig-E.
I'm paying $70 a month for AT&T Gigabit Internet -- $30 - $40 a month more than DSL. That's not "substantially" more expensive..